UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OFFICIAL STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME XXXVI
Z-229
Audience Crowds HochForOperetta
★Professor Joseph Wilkins Directs Men's and Women's Glee Clubs in Most Ambitious Musical Dramatic Production Ever Staged by University Students
By Jim Robertson and Ken Postlethwaite
The most ambitious musical dramatic production ever staged by University students was greeted by a full house in Hoch auditorium last night. Sigmund Romberg's famous operetta, "Blossom Time" was revived locally by the combined Men's and Women's Glee Clubs under the capable direction of Joseph F. Wilkins, professor of voice.
Most striking personality of loine Goodjohn, who sang the part of Bella Bruna. In her was discovered not only a brilliant and flexible voice, but ability as a comedienne also. High spot of her many good scenes was that with Kranz, the suspicious father of three daughters (played by Fred Lake, who also captivated the fancy of the audience).
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY, NOV. 15, 1938
Most striking personality of the production was that of Ar-
spular impression of the Helen paloser, from his well-weekend onomach to his flowing locks oorn arm rimmed spectacles. Jack sang well the several arias in a rich voice voice and drew much an aplause.
Laud "Tell Me Daisy"
Jaeb Franz Schuben and he even looked like the
Marie Wilkins as Mitzi, Schubert's beloved, received much attention from the audience. Her duets with Jack were especially appealing. The ever popular "Song of Love" had to be repeated for the enthusiastic crowd. Another duet in the second act, "Tell Me Daaisy", was without doubt the highest spot of the show for sheer perfection of performance.
Professor Wilkins was only directed "Blossom Time" in an expert man-mer but carried the part of Baron von Schober in an entertaining fashion. His vast experience with this production was most obvious for he went through his part as though he were living it.
Orchestra Is Good
The remainder of the cast was equally good and without exception maintained the high standards set by the leading parts. Honorable mention should go, however; to Arthur Wolf as Vogl; William Hayes as Kuppewiser; Gray Dorsey as Vor Schwind; Ira Scott as Count Scharntoff; Maxine Pendleton, the daneuse; and Martin Crawford after a beautiful and well-executed dance; Mae Tinklepaugh as Novtiev; and Fred Lake as Krunz.
Bouquets must be given Prof. Karl Kuerateiner who directed a small but excellent orchestra. No fault can be found in the production, and parying the production and it adds
ON THE
SHIN
by jimmy robertson
For the benefit of jitterbugs we admire Red Blackbush's brand of swing. Red is now playing nightly except Monday at the KC. club in Kansas City. City is attending med school in the city, and his newly organized band includes a couple of ex-KU men.
Shinpoos, foo and goo: Bob Busby's column in the Journal World is enjoyable—most enjoyable when he rips the Pi Phi's. . . smoothest names on the Hill are those of Lorraine Loriax and Wendel Wallace Wentrast and Sabler whose make funny noises since some stale rost the walnuts from a Campus tree before he got around to it.
Comes a letter signed "The Campus Improvement League" in which a very practical suggestion is made, to wit: "Why don't you and John Randolph Tye fight a duel to the death (no less)." At least an innocent person would not get hurt." As I say, it's a good idea, but then I'd like to think it over for a couple of days.
A city ordinance making it crime for more than two people to walk abreast on Lawrence sidewalk has been on the books since the days when K.U. could defeat Nebraska. For two years Voe ha
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immeaucreature to the success of the show. Carroll Nickels was featured on the stage during the first and second acts with his violin.
Compliments are due the production staff for the tremendous efforts that were put forth in staging this operetta. Under the direction of Professor Wilkinson the stage settings were erected and painted on the Campus. The art department of drawing and painting did the excellent brush work.
The lighting by R. W. Laing was also impressive and added much to the show. It is *t* time we have seen a pa *f* star, attended on the auditorium stage, the aermos; the arcens; the dark shadows that *c* capable of dissipation by the regular lightings system of that stage.
Hawkins To Talk At 'Matrix' Table
★Sorority Will Sponsor
Banquet for Journalists
Tomorrow
Lacy Rogers Hawkins, editor of the "Matrix", national publication of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary journalist sorcery, will be principal speaker at the Matrix table banquet, to be tomorrow evening at Exxon Hearst.
The Matrix table is sponsored by the University chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, and is hed each year for the purpose of stimulating interest in the organization, and in the work seen in journalism and related fields.
Miss Hawkins is a member of the faculty of Northwestern University and is highly recommended as a a student in the activities of women in journalism.
In previous years, the Matrix table has been a formal banquet. This year, however, Theta Sigma Phi has become a common and make it an informal function.
The banquet will be held at Evans Hairth at 6:45 o'clock. Tickets may be purchased from members of Theta Sigma Phi and from Mrs. L. N. Flint and Mrs. J. J. Kistler, alumni advisers of the organization.
Personal Relations Commission Gives Second Supper
The second in a series of suppers being given by the combined personal relations, commissions of the Y.W.C.A., and Y.M.C.A., and W.S.G.A. will be held at 5:30 p.m. today in Henley house.
A discussion of entertainment in relation to "dating" will follow the supper in the regular meeting of the commission. Plans will be made for the Barn dance to be held Saturday night, sponsored by the personal relations and creative leisure commissions of the Y.M. and Y.W.
The committee planning the supper is composed of Mary Iloff, '42 Betty Boddington, 'c4; Carl Peterson, 'm'2; and Kernit Franks, '45
Announce Essay Contest On History of South
Chancellor Lindley's office received a notice from Mrs. Livingston Rowe Schuyler, New York, announcing competition for the Mrs. Livingston prize based on $1,000 for the best study on the history of the South.
At Long Last,
Dance at Midweek
Varsity Tonight
A meeting of the Witan for 7 o'clock tonight in the Memoria Union building was announced yess. Harsen, Hagan, c.m. 42 secretary.
Witan Meets Tonight
Louie Kubu's orchestra, featuring the lyrical pleasantries of Romantic Ray Buckley, will play the first Mid-west Vaccinium since way back when from 7 to 8 o'clock tonight in the Memorial Union ballroom.
In announcing the unexpected event, Jim Bounds, e 39, said, "For the benefit of those who have forgotten how to elbow at Midweeks, we will have available special instruction in procedure in the Union uniform today."
Midweeks have been postponed recently because of other "important" events which were regarded as more desirable that the hour of frolicking.
Orchestra's 36th Season Starts
University Symphony Will Present Concert Thursday
The fall concert of the University Symphony orchestra, under the direction of Prof. Karl Kuehrsteiner will be held Thursday at 8 pm in Hoch auditorium. The concert open to the public without charge.
This concert will open the thirty sixth season of musical programs' the University orchestra. The剧院, consisting of 90 men will play the well-known "Symphony" (Tschakowsky). In recent years there has been a revival of Tschakowsky symphonies which have proved popular with audiences all over the world.
Joe Van Stickel, fa38, plays a horn solo, and Jeanne Moyer, fa42, enlivens the waltz movement with her bassoon cadenza.
Two Will Play Solos
This symphony by Tschakowski is unusual because it has a complete waltz movement instead of the usual scherzo in the third move. The second movement each movement, but it comes in unexpected places, and sets a striking and definite mood for the whole composition. This symphony is likened to a "fate" motif that is often found in the "Fifth Symphony" by Beethoven.
Lewis Maser, fa'39, assistan.
leader of the orchestra, will conduct
the opening piece, "Oberon Overture" (Weber).
Orchestra Will Accompany Harpist Elizabeth Searle, f39, will play a Gabriel Picerni arrangement for the harp with full orchestra accompaniment. Miss Searle has played four harps in the orchestra for four years.
The final piece of the concert will be "Rumani Rhapsody," (Ernesco). This will call for two harps which will be played by Elizabeth Searle, 'a'39, and Mrs. Rachel Calvin, gr.
The council of Phi Beta Kappa will meet in room 107 Frank Strong hall at 4:30 Thursday for election of new members, it was announced yesterday by Secretary Raymond Nichols.
Phi Beta Kappa to Elect
WEATHER
Fair Tuesday and Wednesday,
Somewhat warmer Wednesday and
in west portion Tuesday.
Lecture Series Opens Tonight With Dr. Heiser
★Speaker Is Author of 'An American Doctor's Odyssey;' Is Specialist On Leprosy
Author, physician, scientist, world traveler, health director—these are a few of the titles earned by Dr. Vcari Heiser, who opens the Community Lecture course at 8:20 p.m. to tonight in Hoch auditorium.
Dr. Heiser will speak on "More of an American Doctor's Odyssey," and will relate more of the experiences which he told in his best-selling book "An American Doctor's Odyssey." He is also the author of several books on medicine, and has written articles for standard medical journals.
From 1915 until his retirement in 1934, Dr. Heiser was director of the international health division of the Rockefeller Foundation. Prior to that he served as chief officer of health and chief quarantine officer for the Philippine Islands.
With Rockefeller Foundation
Although he is retired from active duty for the Foundation, the doc
ser ices are in demand as a be-ber and a scientist. Not long ago Fi returned from his fifteenth trip round the world, but in a short he was on his way again to Central Africa to study a peculiar insect. He found it on the floor and to do research work on the transmission of yellow fever.
Dr. Heiker has worked on stamping out smallpox, plague, cholera, and other diseases in the tropics, but his main endeavor was in advancing the control and cure of leprosy. He has done much to make a formerly fatal disease curable, and was recently elected president of the International Leprosy Association.
Activity Books Admit
Activity Books Admic
His work with lepers began many years ago, when he was Director of Health for the Philippines. The condition of lepers in the islands was considered hopeless, but with hard work he started a colony for them on an island. Already 1300 lepers were released from the island as cured.
Dr. Heiser will be introduced by N. P. Sherwool, professor of bacteriology. The speaker will arrive Lawrence shortly before the lecture.
Students will be admitted on their activity tickets, and reserved seats may be obtained at the office of Mr. Frank Stroll, men, room Frank Stroll, high.
Dr. Forrest C. Allen, chairman of the department of physical education, will go to Sabeth today to address the football banquet to be given at the Sabeth Country club that evening by the Chamber of Commerce. Sis subject will be "Dardiles and Goal Lines."
Allen to Speak In Sabetha
There will be a Mu Phi Epion
meeting at 7 p.m., tonight in Ruth
Orcutt's studio. Institution plans will
be assured. All members must be present.
Mu Phi Epsilon Meets Tonight
NUMBER 45
Dr. Francisco said last night that Dick Aimer would be able to walk by next Monday. X-rays taken at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City showed no complications in his case and he also stated that Dick would be able to play football next year.
Back Injury Will Keep Amerine 'Flat' In Bed For Two Months
BULLETIN
By Bill Mills, c'40 Kansas Staff Writer
Kansas City, Nov. 15. — Dick Amerea, senior halfback who was injured during the second quarter of the Kansas-George Washington game Saturday afternoon, left a pullman here on a stretcher at 9 o'clock tonight, was placed in an ambulance, and was taken to University of Kansas hospital where he will remain for two months.
Professor Geltch Given A Sabbatical Leave
Subbatical leave for the spring semester of Waldemar Geltch, professor of violin and orchestra, was announced yesterday by the Chancellor's office. Professor and Mrs. Geltch expect to spend the spring and summer in Europe, returning next fall for the opening of the fall semester. They expect to spend much time in Italy, and Vienna, with other visits to Budapest and the Scandinavian countries.
Third and fourth vertebraes were broken in the football player's
Famous Engineer Speaks Today
at the dance stated that the colorful
De Henry Earl Riggs, 86, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a prominent engineer and educator, will speak to junior and senior students of the School of Engineering and Architecture at 10:30 tomorrow morning in room 206, Marvin hall.
Doctor Riggs will be guest at a joint banquet of the state section of the society and the student chapter here Thursday night.
Following the game Saturday a dance was held in the Washington University football team and the band. Harry Wooding, secretary of war, was 'present'
Junior and senior students will be dismissed from classes for the lecture. Freshmen and sophomore students may attend, however, if they have no classes at that time, Ivan C. Crawford, dean of the School of Engineering, said yesterday.
Born here in 1865, Doctor Riggs was graduated from the University n 1868, spent 26 years as a railroad engineer, and 18 years as professor of civil engineering at the University of Michigan where he is still retained in an honorary capacity. He received a Master's degree in engineer specializing in rate regulation and valuation of public utilities.
Eastwood Paintings Go on Display
Two dozen paintings, mostly recent works by Raymond J. Eastwood, associate professor of drawing and painting, have been placed on display in the loan gallery of Spooner-Thayer museum of art.
The paintings are mostly landscapes of the Cape Cod region, with a few figures. Professor Eatwood lived in Cape Cod and sweetpeaets at Kansas City, Mo.
The University band returned from its Washington trip yesterday, arriving in Lawrence at 7 p.m. The return trip was made in 40 hours, the band leaving Washington at 4 a.m. Sunday morning.
Return Trip Uneventful
Band's Performance at Game Praised by Washington Post
appearance of the Kansas band made him even more proud of his home state. Mrs. Wooding also expressed his desire to see the Kansas in Washington.
"The band was unusually well behaved on the trip. Although it was a hard trip there was not a note of dissention from the time we left Lawrence. Although we missed the concert in Evansville, Ind., and had a cancellation in Chillicothe, Ohio, I feel that the trip was very much worthwhile. It is probably the only chance that many of the band members will ever have to see our beautiful Capital city. Thanks again to our people at home for making this trip possible."
Prof. Russel L. Wiley had the following comment to make concerning the trip:
"The attack of the Kansas team was secondary to their 100-piece band in the plaudits of the fans, who thundered applause to the tactics of one of the best drilled collegiate musical units that ever performed in Griffith stadium. A pre-game and half-time drill, with five drum majors was worth the cross-country win. That was the highlight of Washington Post following the football game in Washington, D.C., Saturday.
There was no trouble on the return trip from overweight as four
basses were used through Illiois and Missouri. A 5-hour rest was taken in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sunday night but kept for the rest of the week.
When the band left Lawrence last Wednesday morning three band men had to be called because they over-slept and missed the buses. In Cincinnati two men missed the buses and finally caught them with a text. Three members forget their instruments and were forgotten but except for these minor mistakes everything went all right.
The Trumpeteers Play
The band arrived in Washington Friday noon and spent the afternoon and evening touring Washington. The Armistice Day exercises at Arlington Cemetery were just over. During the day the White House, the Lincoln Memorial, the
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spinal column, and he must lie fla for two months.
When Amerine received the injury after being run out of bounds on an end sweep, Dr. J. Lloyd Collins, a university graduate, now a doctor on the George Washington campus, is also hospitalized to the hospital for an X-ray.
Mrs. R. W. Amerine, the player's mother, Miss Denise Lemoine, University student, and her parents, Dr. and Mrs. A. N. Lemoine of Kansas City were at the train to meet Amerine.
Returning from Washington with the injured player were Coach Adrian Lindsay and Dr. John Billich, a former Navy physician who attended the game.
The "hospital party" came to Chicago with the rest of the football squad, but transferred to another manlift when the team boarded the stream-liner, made up entirely of chair cars.
Announce Lewis Essay Contest
The Hattie Elizabeth Lewis prize essay competition for 1938-39 was announced yesterday by Prof. Seba Eldridge, chairman of the committee. Prizes of $100, $75, $50, and $25 again will be offered for the best essays on some application of the teachings of Christ to some students. First prize last year was won by George Cronemeyer, '38, for his essay, "What Might the Christian World Do Now?"
Members of the committee in addition to Professor Eldridge are Miss Sara G. Laird and Miss Alice Winston, associate professors of English; and W. A. Dill, associate professor of journalism. Prospective writers are asked to confer with Chairman Eldridge.
The contest was established in 1911 by Prof. G. E. Patrick, of Washington, D.C., a former memmert of Hattie Elizabeth Lewis. Hattie Elizabeth Lewis.
*Competition for Prize
Of $100 Open Again
To Students
National Press Society Elects Clapper Presider
The committee, as suggestions to prospective writers, offers a number of topics, including "Denominationalism," "Changing Moral Standards," "Propaganda and Pressure Groups," "The Aramantens Race" Contestants may, of course, choose their own titles, so long as the general theme of application of Christian principles to the problem is adhered to. Projected titles are to be submitted at the Chancellor's office by April 1, and the essays, 5.000 to 10.000 words, by May 1.
John J. Kistler, assistant professor of journalism, Harold Addington, c'39; Bill Tleyr, c'39; and Louis Fockele, c'39; returned yesterday morning from Madison, Wis, where they attended the national convention of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity.
At the convention, Raymond Clapper, Washington correspondent and graduate of the University, gave one of the major speeches and was elected national honorary president. Mr. Clapper is a professional member of the Kansas chapter, and is the first man who was a member of an under-graduate chapter to become honorary president.
In a competition among the 41 undergraduate chapters, the Kansas chapter was ranked with Grinnell in fourth place and fourth place in chapter efficiency.
Costume Sketches Arrive
The department of design received a portfolio of sketches of Polish peasant costumes yesterday from France. Various styles are represented, and the pictures are brilliantly colored, and each is about 12 inches high. This is a valuable addition to the books in costume illustration which the department of design collects.
Nelson Solicits Aid for Red Cross
Nelson Society for the Red Cross
Dr. John J. Nelson, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has written letters to all faculty members soliciting aid for the Red Cross. Doctor Nelson is chairman of the committee at the University on the Red Cross.
Ambassador To Germany Called Back
★Hilter's Jewish Policy Causes Action by State Department; Move Is For Consultation
At the same time it was reported without confirmation that President Roosevelt will issue a statement to tomorrow dealing with Germany's treatment of Jews and urging that the Reich's government desist from measures which have aroused protesting the world. Return a Question.
Return a Question
Washington, Nov. 15 (UP)—The State department tonight announced the summoning home from Berlin of Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson for an indefinite period of consultation on German anti-semitic compaign and for a complete reexamination of German-American relations.
Officials denied that Wilson's recall home was the first step in a diplomatic breach. It was learned on high authority, however, that Wilson's stay here will be prolonged and that it is improbable he will return unless the Hitler government recognizes the semitic question as a problem that requires humanitarian consideration.
Wilson is expected to sail almost immediately. State department officials did not style his return a recall, as such, but said he had been ordered here for "consultation." He is now in WOI for the United States exhibited its displeasure over maltreatment of Jews by using such tactics.
Prentiss B. Gilbert, chief councilor of the embassy, will be in charge during Wilson's absence. Wilson went to Berlin a year ago last spring to succeed former Ambassador William E. Dodd, who was person non grata, because of his anti-Nazi utterances. He was chosen for his disposition as sagacity as well as his keen knowledge of internal German affairs.
Order Is Significant
Much significance was attached to the fact that he was ordered home while the latest anti-Jewish wave is at its height, instead of remaining to insure protective measures for American Jews.
Observers saw the order as a direct slap at the German government and Chancellor Adolph Hitler. They said that there was no more forfeit way for the United States to emphasize its displeasure over Jewish apprehension except through issuance of a diplomatic note.
In this connection, Secretary of State Cordell Hull indicated last week that this government could not protest actively unless lives and property for United States nationals were threatened.
Prime Minister Dodges Plea for U.S. Aid
The British protest and a statement by Chamberlain in Commons, snubbing Hitler's colonial demands, appeared to have shattered all immediate prospects of a British leadership and Europenna appassion.
London, Nov. 15.—(UP) –Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain today Commands for joint Anglo-United States action on behalf of Germany's dodged demands in the House of terrorized Jews after British prosecution against Nazi press attacks to the anti-Semitic drive.
London newspapers clamored for joint action by the United States and Great Britain to relieve the suffering of German Jews. Organizations throughout the country added their voice to the demands.
The British protest delivered in Berlin during the afternoon, complained of a statement in the newspaper of Paul Joseph Goebbela, Nazi propaganda minister, intimating that the anti-German utterances of such Britons as Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Alfred Duff Cooper, might have inspired the assassination of a minor German diplomat in Paris a week ago.
WOMEN'S GLEE CLUB
Women's Glee Club pictures will be taken today at 12:30 at the Lawrence studio. Please wear dark dresses and be there on time.
Lucille McVey, President.